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                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     said that the Forgotten God journeyed to the Elemental Plane of Earth and, through guile and deception, defeated the Grand Khan of the dao. The price of that defeat was harsh: the dao were forced to
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk’s most frightening
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     enslave dao for a time. It is said that the Forgotten God journeyed to the Elemental Plane of Earth and, through guile and deception, defeated the Grand Khan of the dao. The price of that defeat was harsh
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     parents pack children off to communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , as hobgoblins place the norkers at the bottom of the goblinoid ranks, yet the norkers' ferocity, tough hides, and sharp fangs allow them to rise up and defeat goblinoids that underestimate the norkers
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the dictates of Maglubiyet have prevented the hobgoblins from hunting down and exterminating these creatures.
A Legacy of Hatred. Given their ancient defeat and terrible treatment at the hands of other
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     defeat goblinoids that underestimate the norkers' strength and ferocity.. For this reason, norkers are likely encountered away from their brethren. Their natural armor and weapons make them dangerous
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     defeat and terrible treatment at the hands of other goblinoids, the norkers have developed a peculiar sect of Maglubiyet worshipper. They call him the Great Scourge and believe that mortal life is a
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     dusky brown skin and long black hair, his face a mask of terror, looks on what you have wrought and screams. Rahadin has served Strahd’s family for hundreds of years and doesn’t take his master’s defeat
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Yakfolk (p. 244–245) The Yakfolk description up to the “Skin Crawlers” section has changed to the following (the “Skin Crawlers” section is unchanged): Yakfolk, known among themselves as Yikaria
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     enslave dao for a time. It is said that the Forgotten God journeyed to the Elemental Plane of Earth and, through guile and deception, defeated the Grand Khan of the dao. The price of that defeat was
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     climbs up out of the shaft in the middle of the taproom — a monster with warty green skin, a tangled nest of wiry black hair, a long, carrot-shaped nose, and bloodshot eyes. As it bares its yellow teeth
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . To any characters who help defeat the troll, Durnan says matter-of-factly, “You fought well.” If any of the characters are reduced to 0 hit points during the fight, employees of the Yawning Portal step forward to stabilize them.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     upon Lekar’s walls. The people might want to abandon their homes, but Vladeska Drakov will not know defeat. FALKOVNIAN CHARACTERS
 Characters from Falkovnia have good reason to be in other domains
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , having fled their homeland’s zombie plague. Such individuals have likely seen horrors and know tragedy. Falkovnia’s residents often have brown hair and varied skin tones with warm undertones. Their names
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A Titanic Problem Among the endless celebrations ongoing throughout the gate-town, the scion of a god is nursing a crushing defeat and is on the verge of making it everyone’s problem. As the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     following scene: An eighteen-foot-tall, humanlike woman with marble skin and eyes crackling with lightning crouches to agitatedly argue with a calm, silver-haired elf. Beyond the elf is a rollicking
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     figures are shambling up from the water’s edge, about thirty feet away. They’re dressed as sailors, but their skin is gray and they look drowned. Sea water drools from their slack mouths as they lurch
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     damage can help finish off a zombie. Runara’s Aid. In the unlikely event that the zombies defeat the adventurers, Runara comes to their rescue. The characters wake up in the temple (area A5 in Dragon’s
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Intro to Stormwreck Isle
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     figures are shambling up from the water’s edge, about thirty feet away. They’re dressed as sailors, but their skin is gray and they look drowned. Sea water drools from their slack mouths as they lurch
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Those who succeed might recall that a particularly powerful blow (a critical hit) or radiant damage can help finish off a zombie. Runara’s Aid. In the unlikely event that the zombies defeat the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     padlocked door in area B8 and 4d10 gp in a pouch made of elf skin and cinched with a rope made of woven dwarf hair. Losser has made several changes to the complex: Area B6 contains three beds — two
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Golorr. If the characters pursue the stone and leave Losser alive, he eventually slips away and retreats to area B11. Next Encounter Once the characters defeat Xanathar’s forces in the cellar, they can
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     the altar.
 A male humanoid with aqua skin, large black eyes, and gauzy robes stands in front of the altar. He makes stabbing motions with his hands, apparently arguing with nobody as he peers directly
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     sphere to restrain troublesome characters so the water elemental myrmidons can attack while they’re restrained. Treasure. Shoalar possesses a bowl of commanding water elementals. If the characters defeat
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , shields leap from the walls to protect him (see “Flying Shields” below). During waking hours, Ras Nsi returns here only if he’s in danger. If the characters defeat Ras Nsi and question him, he reveals the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     following information to save his skin: Ras Nsi is slowly rotting to death. He doesn’t know the cause of his affliction and has no way to cure it. Before he dies, Ras Nsi wants to bring forth Dendar
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     allow them to rise up and defeat goblinoids that underestimate the norkers’ strength and ferocity.. For this reason, norkers are likely encountered away from their brethren. Their natural armor and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Given their ancient defeat and terrible treatment at the hands of other goblinoids, the norkers have developed a peculiar sect of Maglubiyet worshipper. They call him the Great Scourge and believe
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     knowledge and experience from generation to generation. Thus, the injury of their defeat by the gods remains perfectly preserved in their minds. Aboleths’ minds are treasure troves of ancient lore
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Constitution saving throw or become diseased. The disease has no effect for 1 minute and can be removed by any magic that cures disease. After 1 minute, the diseased creature’s skin becomes translucent
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     language. 3 I fawn over others to make my betrayal more unexpected. 4 I crush those I can defeat, and lie in wait to weaken and overwhelm those I must respect. 5 I will do anything to survive. Anything. 6
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . 10 Huge Feet. The demon suffers disadvantage on Stealth, Athletics, and Acrobatics checks when they involve moving its feet. 11 Translucent Skin. The demon’s skin is slimy and translucent. It has
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Infernal Machine Rebuild
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Machine of Lum the Mad. Yet with Lum’s eventual defeat, his great machine was destroyed.
The Infernal Machine is a delicate, intricate, bulky, and heavy device, weighing some 5,500 pounds. It can
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     any text.
You lose the ability to speak any language. This has no effect on casting spells with verbal components.
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You can cast the speak with plants spell three times.
Your skin turns
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Sickly grasses and wilting wildflowers surround the wide trunk.
 R2: Sickly Redwood The bark of this once-regal redwood is sloughing off in sheets, like a snake’s shed skin. Impossibly tall branches
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     cast a sickly pall over the area.
 R3: Dryad’s Tree A redwood towers above, its trunk as wide as a building and its bark peeling like dry skin. A few feet above the ground, a figure with green skin
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Chief among those causes is the defeat of the servants of the archdevil Bel. An eccentric dilettante, Lynx has had her thick horns intricately carved and inlaid with sigils and figures in silver
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     her former skills and intellect, and bonded to an equally special flesh golem that she wears as a costumed skin. (If you are playing through Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, this setup was one of
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     become easier to wake him in recent decades, and believe this to be a sign that he will soon fully awaken, shed his skin, and — renewed by transformation — restore the yuan-ti to their rightful place
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     serpent folk in the form of a winged yuan-ti. He promised to lead the yuan-ti away from the brink of defeat and back to the pinnacle of world domination in return for their veneration. Many of
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     otter, a fawn, a sugar glider, a wombat, or a beautiful butterfly. 2 Ancient. This archfey appears to be eons old. They might have gnarled skin like teakwood and long, gray hair that looks like
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Floral. Flowers bloom from the archfey’s fingertips, and their skin is covered in petals. Their body might have thorns, or they could have vine-like hair covered in sweet-smelling blossoms. 5 Fluid. The
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . 4 Bathing in the spring grants a creature the benefits of the greater restoration spell. As a side effect, the creature’s skin, hair, and eyes become a shimmering golden color for 1d4 days. 5
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     it and determine its properties.
 To determine the effects of eating such fungus, roll on the Magic Mushroom Effects table.
 
  Magic Mushroom Effects   d10 Effects   1 The creature’s skin turns an
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     to defeat a much larger foe. The elders know that the world outside is dangerous and that their kin must understand how to deal with those dangers. Stories about Arvoreen are told in such a way that
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     youngsters are inspired to act out his epic battles. In this way, the halflings get practical experience in executing measures that are designed to help the halflings defeat kobolds and goblin raiders
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     compartments and contains a pair of black leather boots, an empty water skin, a petrified basilisk egg, spider silk sack containing 175 pp, a potion of vitality, and two thick spellbooks. The spellbooks
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     with the conjure animals spell use their blindsight to target enemies that are engulfed in magical darkness. If her defeat is inevitable and escape proves impossible, Erelal makes whatever
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    .” Will you help defeat Murgaxor? “No.” N6. Fortress  Khelvor the daemogoth eagerly anticipates
the suffering that will occur when
Murgaxor’s ritual is complete Little remains of the once-proud fortress
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     glistening muscle, ashen skin, and yellowed bone. Oily vapor issues from six mouths on the surface of the sphere, which sits pulsing on the ground.
 A character who examines the sphere and succeeds on a
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     captured, as detailed below: Escape. If the characters defeat or evade their pursuers, they quickly run into Farrow, who helps them lie low in a nearby establishment as Harmonium backup arrives on the scene
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , ashen skin, and a purplish birthmark on the right side of their face. The shadar-kai serves the arcanaloth Shemeshka as one of her most reliable agents, using a magic ring that functions as a hat of
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     room’s eastern wall between shelves of cooking supplies. A stressed-looking human barely out of his youth, with blue skin and disheveled white hair, stirs a cauldron over a small fire. On either side of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     half of this room is Difficult Terrain, as it is littered with furniture. Talking with Pierre. If the characters defeat his grick guards, Pierre is Friendly toward them and eager to talk. Pierre
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     cost of their free will. The Cult of the Howling Hatred relies upon deception and trickery both to recruit its members and defeat its enemies. Even so, those that underestimate the air cult for their
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     as light as leaves. Gaunt and sallow faced, with concave bellies, bulging eyes, and taut skin that enunciates every bone, these living skeletons sustain themselves on nothing more than air and
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Giant. They relate the same information as Heldalf, but add that they wish Ralvald would give up his impossible quest to defeat Challidax. D5: Ralvald’s Retreat A wide river crosses this cavern
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , is a frost giant covered in small green leaves that sprout from his skin. Beside him, a shaggy rhinoceros calmly grazes on these leaves. Several enormous cloaks and helms hang on hooks pounded into
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     curious about any racket. The duergar use crossbows (see area B5) while the cultists in B7 come to aid the forces here. Development If the characters defeat the guards here and depart the temple, Marlos
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     and her guards are on the verge of defeat, she turns on her own guards and finishes them off so she can try to strike a deal with the characters. Yarsha tells the party that Miraj is the earth prophet
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     plateaus rise twenty feet above the water. Atop each plinth crouches a humanoid with slimy, translucent skin. The water flows toward the southeast, where you hear a thunderous waterfall.
 The water is
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     surface, their skin black from frostbite. Some hang upside down or sideways; some are missing fingers, hands, and feet.
 A one-eyed shiver (see chapter 7) and seven ice mephits inhabit this cave. The one
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     chains stretch across the cavern, apparently to shuttle multi-ton buckets of ore across the lava. The heat takes your breath away, brings water to your eyes, and bakes your skin. From where you stand
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Despite their best efforts, the firenewts have been unable to force the door or defeat the locks. Locked Door. The door’s upper lock is embedded in an adamantine frame resembling a stylized form of
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Periods of sustaining themselves upon only air have warped their bodies. Their eyes bulge from cavernous sockets, and skin stretches across jutting bone. Because of their devotion, they are immune to
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     spellcasters. Aerisi refuses to flee at this point, and trying to do so through the air portal with Windvane would be disastrous. When the characters defeat her, she vanishes in a scream of wind, but
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Treasure. In addition to worthless personal effects, each chest contains one of the following: 110 gp and 60 sp in a pouch made of human skin Three pieces of cut jade (worth 100 gp each) in a folded
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     defeat it. For its Bloodheart Stake trait, the impaler is bound to the stake in Brigetta’s corpse. Retrieving the Rod Piece. If the relentless impaler is destroyed, the cultists cower in fear and allow
                                                
                                            
                                        





